CLARENCE SHEDENHELM'S FAMILY

      Joshua McClellen Shedenhelm had two sons. One of the them was Melvin, whose family I have been blessed to know much better in recent years... and the other was Clarence, who was my grandfather. For reasons unknown to me, grandfather Clarence and uncle Melvin didn't see or talk to one another, and therefore, I can't speak in depth to his children. Thanks to me cousin, Maradean, however, I can offer these little biographical bits on Clarence and Myrene's kids.
      Mary Glene, b. 1907, graduated from Garwin High School in Garwin, Iowa and attended Iowa State Teachers College (now University of Northern Iowa). She taught at a school near Wellsburg and also at the Rock Valley school. In 1928 she married Lawrence Tetley at the Brethren parsonage in Waterloo, Iowa. They farmed east of Green Mountain, IA., and had four children: Myrene, Marjane, Maradean, and Mervin.
      Juanita Myrene, b. 1909, graduated from LeGrand High School and married Kenneth Fisher in October 1928, in Ottumwa, Iowa. They farmed southwest of Garwin, Iowa and had four children: Marjorie, Elaine, Cheryl, and Dwight.
      Cecil Mervin, b. 1914, graduated from Newburgh high school and married Maxine Welton at her parent's home southwest of Garwin, Iowa. They young couple cared for Joshua's wife, Mary Elizabeth Johnson for five years on their home northwest of Marengo, while they farmed in that area and also north of Belle Plaine, Iowa. They had three children: Terry, Judy, and Rodney.
      Marjorie Helen, b. 1916, died at her home southeast of Garwin on April 17, 1923, at the age of seven, from rhumantic fever.
      Evalyn Rae, b. 1919, graduated from Toledo High School and married Emmett Patrick Nace on July 23, 1938 at St. Bridget's Catholic Church in Victor, Iowa. She taught at a country school near Brooklyn, worked at hospitals in Cedar Rapids, Grinnell and Marengo, ran Nace's Restaurant in Belle Plaine, and retired from the Amana company in Amana, Iowa. They also farmed and had five children: Patricia, Ronald, Daniel, Sharon, and Renita.
      Lieutenant Gale Allen, b. 1921, served as a Air Force pilot in the European theatre and later became the Executive Vice-President for a manufacturing company near Ankeny, Iowa. Gale and his second wife, Stella Sylvester, had three children: Ken, Larry, and Randy.
      Duane Dean, b. 1924, whose funeral service was held today (December 10), was Clarence and Myrene's youngest son. He farmed successfully in areas near Marengo, Brandon, and Lime Springs, Iowa. Duane married Maxine Burrell in 1944 and they had a son named, Jary.
      The youngest child in the family is my aunt Betty Mildred, b. 1926, who still lives by herself near Independence, Iowa. She married Eldo Carlson in April, 1945, and they had five children: Gerald, Eldon, Richard, Marilyn, and Allen.